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Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say — President Trump has told advisers he has decided to remove Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and her departure from the administration is likely to occur in the coming weeks, if not sooner …
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POLITICO Playbook: Welcome back ... Trump wants to oust DHS Secretary Nielsen — DRIVING THE DAY — WELCOME BACK! ... CONGRESS comes back into session tonight, and new-member orientation begins today. — READ THE TEA LEAVES ... As we enter the lame-duck session of Congress …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Whitaker's Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge — WASHINGTON — In the days since President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and declared that he was installing Matthew G. Whitaker as the acting attorney general, many critics have challenged Mr. Whitaker's fitness for the job.
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Adam B. Schiff / Washington Post:
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you
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New York Times:
‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing — ‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince to Khashoggi Killing — Shortly after the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed last month at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul …
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations — E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday — New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN -4.41% second and third headquarters …
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Washington Post:
U.S. says audio recording of Khashoggi killing does not implicate Saudi crown prince — SINGAPORE — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death inside an Istanbul consulate did not appear to provide any link between …
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race — PHOENIX — Representative Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat and former social worker, scored a groundbreaking victory in the race for a Senate seat in Arizona, defeating her Republican opponent after waging a campaign in which she embraced …
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Arizona Republic:
Sinema vs. McSally … Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's unbreakable hold on Maricopa County, along with overwhelming support for her from Martha McSally's Tucson-based congressional district, gave her an electoral edge Republicans could not erase in the race for Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat.
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Kyrsten Sinema has flipped Jeff Flake's Senate seat to the Democrats
Kyrsten Sinema has flipped Jeff Flake's Senate seat to the Democrats
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
What's Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse. — With Florida set this week to undertake a massive and massively politicized recount in the critical races for governor and senator, the way that election fight has played out so far has been an absolute nightmare.
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miamiherald:
Miami-Dade is halfway through its recount. Broward hasn't started yet.
Miami-Dade is halfway through its recount. Broward hasn't started yet.
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Washington Post:
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Gillum bets future on defending Floridians' right to vote
Gillum bets future on defending Floridians' right to vote
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Special counsel witness says he expects to be charged in Mueller probe — The former Infowars Washington bureau chief, who recently testified before a federal grand jury in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election …
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Shannon K. Crawford / ABC News:
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.
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Wall Street Journal:
Conservative Activist Jerome Corsi Says He Expects to Be Indicted in Mueller Probe
Washington Post:
Conservative author and Stone associate Jerome Corsi said he expects to be indicted by special …
Anna Schecter / NBC News:
Roger Stone pal Jerome Corsi says Mueller is planning to indict him
Roger Stone pal Jerome Corsi says Mueller is planning to indict him
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
No ‘blue wave,’ but Democrats' midterm success sinking in — NEW YORK (AP) — No it wasn't a blue wave. But a week after the voting, Democrats are riding higher than they thought on Election Night. — As vote counting presses on in several states, the Democrats have steadily chalked …
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Can Marine One Fly in the Rain? — Why, exactly, did Donald Trump not join Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and Justin Trudeau at Saturday's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the original Armistice Day? I don't know, and I don't think anyone outside the White House does at this point.
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Washington Post:
Pelosi moves aggressively to snuff out challenge to her bid for House speaker — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is moving aggressively to snuff out a challenge from some lawmakers who are demanding new party leadership, while powerful allies outside Congress are helping rally support for her bid for speaker.
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Death toll rises to 42 in California's Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state — BREAKING: Death toll rises to 42 in California's Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state. — PARADISE, Calif. — The thing about Paradise is that people expected to live out their lives here in the hills.
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Axios:
The Trump-GOP 2020 doomsday scenario — In private conversations after the midterms, many top Republicans and Democrats said that President Trump seemed to be heading into his 2020 re-election race in a relatively strong position. — The big picture: They couldn't be more wrong.
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Fox News Twitter Account Remains Dark for Fourth Day Over Tucker Carlson Protest — Fox News continued its Twitter boycott for a fourth day on Monday in an apparent attempt to protest how the social media platform handled tweets surrounding a recent rally against Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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Don Thompson / Associated Press:
Democrats Gain Veto-Proof Majority in California Legislature — Democrats win two Senate seats in California's Central Valley, gain veto-proof supermajorities in state Legislature. — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrats have won two Republican-held California state Senate seats in the Central Valley …
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Dems Priority List Includes Attacks On Free Speech And Gun Rights — Election 2018: Democrats took control of the House by talking endlessly about health care. But it turns out their actual priorities are things that they didn't talk about much on the campaign trail. Now we know why.
Mike Gallagher / The Atlantic:
How to Salvage Congress — If you are among the 11 percent of Americans who believe that everything in Congress is going swimmingly, then save some time and stop reading right now. (But first, please share whatever experimental drugs you are on.) But if you are among the 87 percent …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump is cracking — President Trump is back in the United States — and back to attacking democracy. He tweets: … We should note that this is the talk of authoritarians; it shows contempt for the office of the president, whom the Constitution designates to “to take care” that the nation's laws are faithfully executed.
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New York Times:
Bipartisan Sentencing Overhaul Moves Forward, but Rests on Trump — WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators has reached a tentative deal on the most substantial rewrite of the nation's sentencing and prison laws in a generation, giving judges more latitude to sidestep mandatory minimum sentences …
New York Times:
Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data — Facebook failed to closely monitor device makers after granting them access to the personal data of hundreds of millions of people, according to a previously unreported disclosure to Congress last month.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia secretary of state tells election officials to count absentee ballots — Georgia Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden instructed county election officials Monday to count absentee ballots even if they lack a voter's date of birth, as long as the voter's identity can be verified.